Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socioenvironmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement," literary discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism. The chapters move from...

Grit, guts and glory, along with a touch of glamour, describes the thrill-a-minute spectacle that is rodeo. Down under this sport has its origins in the rugged bush where stockmen and women pit their agility and precision against the brute strength and single-mindedness of the livestock they are charged with managing. Today, this contest continues on the land but is also staged in arenas from the largest cities to the smallest rural towns and watched by thousands of cheering fans dressed in their finest bush attire, hoping to see the beasts tamed by the guile and guts of the cowboys and...